Father Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast
A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
“What is the solution?” I asked. “I don’t think there is one”, she answered sadly, Some years ago a young American woman * , wife of the mayor of Taybeh, one of the last Christian Palestinian towns in the West Bank, spoke at our Saint Nicholas, Cedarburg. During her presentation about the situation there she […]
Read More »This is an approximate quote from Father Thomas Hopko (of blessed memory+): “At inter-religious conferences, at first you find Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics and Protestants together ‘over here’ and Jews ‘over there’. But as we get down to the nitty-gritty of what religion and life are all about, you find Orthodox Christians and Jews together […]
Read More »Please pray for the innocent suffering people of Ukraine, the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank, and of Iran and Sudan. Holy Pentecost The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s Apostles On Penteost, the Holy Spirit came with power, sending the Apostles out to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the […]
Read More »The Council begins. This First Ecumenical Council, the First Council of Nicaea, was not held in secret. We have five accounts of it. It was called into session by the Emperor Constantine on May 20 in the Year of Our Lord 325, the Sunday after the Feast of the Ascension. Why by the Emperor? […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! The Church commemorates the First Ecumenical Council each year on the Sunday after the Ascension. Had I ever written about the First Council? I searched back, and so I had – nine years ago. It was like reading somebody else’s writing! I’m sure that very few of […]
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